China
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Farmer-farmworkers: cross-border wage labor in northeastern Vietnam-southwestern China region
Bao-Nguyet Dang, CASAS’ member, has published this article in Agriculture and Human Values journal. Abstract: The paper contributes to scholarship on family farm, social reproduction, and labor migration theories. It argues that the emergence of wage labor within the family farm labor structure – and its transformation across time, place, and space – has shifted…
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Righteous complicity: the politics of land expropriation in rural China
Guolin Gu, CASAS’ member, has published an article in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: Why do peasants refrain from resisting dispossession, even when faced with the loss of subsistence, minimal compensation, and limited state enforcement? This paper examines an ethnographic case of decade-long intra-village conflicts following partial land expropriation for railway construction in southwest…
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Who is who in CASAS: Qinhong Xu
Qinhong Xu is a researcher with the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University, Netherlands. She earned her PhD from the Water Resources Management Group at the same university, focusing on rural water governance in China. Her research includes political ecology, governmentality, and science and technology studies in water and environmental governance. Currently, she investigates the…
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The evolution of China’s rural water governance: water, techno-political development and state legitimacy
Qinhong Xu, CASAS’ member, has just published an article in the Journal of Peasant Studies with Rutgerd Boelens & Gert Jan Veldwisch Abstract: The article investigates the evolution of rural water governance in the People’s Republic of China through a historical review of its water governance transformations, including the ideology, institutions, and discourses. It is…